Improved mustache-shield for cttps



G.'P.CUTLBR. MUSTAQHE SHIELD FOR U'UPS.

M- Patented June 28,1870.

"Ni lneaaem- GEORGE P. CUTLER, or LAWRENCE, MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters Patent No. 104,711. dated June '28, 1870.

narsovnn Messiaen-sateen relieves.

The Sehedule r'elmed to in these Letters Patent and makingpart at the same.

1h all whom it may concern v Be it known that I GEORGE P. CUTLER, of Lawtube, in the county 0 Essex and State of -Massachusetts, have invented an Improved Mustache-Shield for Cups, and other drinkingwessels; and I do hereby declarethat the following isa full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the 'accom-.

ponying drawing making part of this specification- Figure 1 being a top view of the shield. Figure 2, a side view ofthe same. Figure 3, a front view thereof. Like letters designate corresponding parts in all of the figures.

The shield is formed of a. plate, A, of sili er, or other suitable metal or material, of the form shown, or an equivalent form suitable for the purpose, and of proper length to reach across the edge of the cup, and leave room between its concave edge a and the edge of the cup, to give passage to the coffee, or other beverage, in drinking. I

The ends i: if of .t-he shield turn downward and slightly inward, asshowu most. clearly in fig. 3, and at such an angle, transversely, as to fix and hold over the-edgesof the cup.

Tothe back edgeof the shield is secured a' wire, or equivalent form of holder or clasp-B, which extends backward fiir enough to reach to .the back edge of the cup, where itterminates in a hook or catch, 0, to hold over the said edge.

This holder or clasp has a bend or coil, (2, somewherein its lengthte give it longitudinal elasticity and capahility-ofsome extensionlengthwise, so as to spring and hold over thecruredge The form and length of the concave edge a "corre spond nearly with the opposite edge of the cup, is

seenin fig. 1, and are such as to'make an aperture of the proper form to suit the lips, and furnish a passage for the liquid.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- A m nstache shield', A, provided, with a spring-holder or clasp, B, substantially as and for the purpose herein specified.

GEO. P. CUTLER.

Witnesses:

N. G. Warns, J. N. Wrsms. 

